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My son Daniel McCloskey loves Pittsburgh. After graduating from the University of Pittsburgh last year with a degree in writing, he decided he wanted to make that city his home. He bought a fixer-upper in the Upper Lawrenceville neighborhood and with his friends built a writer's collective he calls Cyberpunk Apocal… Continue

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I've just hung another exhibit of ASARO's woodblock prints, and this show is fortunate to have a collection of photos of Oaxaca by Hank Tusinski which lend context to the gallery exhibition.

“ASARO of Mexico: Impressions of Radical Printmakers” will be be exhibited from Sept. 8 thr… Continue

My full interview with Maestro Takeda appears here in the progressive ezine, Commonsense2.
Please check out the full story and comment on it if you like.

I was surprised to learn the man who taught the radical young printmakers of Oaxaca's ASARO collective was a mild-mannered seventy-five year old Japanese master printer. I had the privilege of speaking with him earlier this year in O… Continue

Taller Grafica Popular

Link, above, to Commonsense2.com about the Taller Grafica Popular in Mexico City. The TGP is “arguably the single most significant graphics workshop in the Americas” and “virtually unknown in the United States,” according to Lincoln Cushing, an expert on the subject and member of this Art of Democracy site. Hope my essay, in some small way, makes the group better know… Continue

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I've just returned from two months working on a sabbatical project on Mexican popular prints in Oaxaca, Mexico.
Like Lester Dore, who invited me to this forum, I've curated a show of woodblock prints by ASARO, the Assembly of Revolutionary Artists of Oaxaca. These guys are remarkable artists. They came together as a collective during the turmoil in Oaxaca in 2006.

My friend Chuck Brown, and his wife Pat, produce a Pr… Continue